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Citing Your Sources

Slide 1. Not sure how to cite your sources?

Slide 2. The library's website has a page with links to various citation style sites. Click on the Research tab.

Slide 3. Select the Citation & Writing Guides link.

Slide 4. Your professor may require a specific style, so check your assignment or syllabus. Here you will find links to the most common styles.

Slide 5. Let's look at how to cite a book using APA style.

Slide 6. Select the link Documenting Sources: APA Style.

Slide 7. Click on APA list of references.

Slide 8. Click on Basic format for a book.

Slide 10. This website gives a description of what to include in the citation and provides an example.

Slide 11. Here's the book I need to cite. Author Title

Slide 12. Publisher and place of publication. Date of publication.

Slide 13. Here's what the citation looks like using APA style.

Herrera, G. (2006). Technology and international transformation: The railroad, the atom bomb, and the politics of technological change. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Slide 14. Let's look at how to cite a journal article.

Slide 16. Select Article in a journal paginated by volume.

Slide 17. Again, there's a list of elements needed and an example of a citation.

Slide 18. Here's the article I need to cite. Author. Title. Page number.

Slide 19. Journal, volume, and date.

Slide 20. Ending page number.

Slide 21. A citation for the article, using APA style, looks like this:

Brazeal, D. (2005). Precursor to modern media hype: The 1830s Penny Press. The Journal of American Culture, 28, 405-414.

Slide 22. Let's look at an example of citing a website. This time, we'll use MLA style. From the Research by Subject page, select the Citation & Writing Guides link.

Slide 23. Scroll down to the MLA section.

Slide 25. Select Documenting Sources: MLA Style.

Slide 27. Click on MLA list of works cited.

Slide 28. Look through the pull-down menu for Electronic sources.

Slide 29. Select Short work from a website.

Slide 31. The website lists the elements needed for writing a citation and provides an example.

Slide 32.This is the webpage I need to cite. Author. Title. Web address. Sponsoring website.

Slide 34. Date the page was last updated.

Slide 35. Here's what the citation looks like, in MLA format:

Allingham, Philip V. "The Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Illustration: Woodblock Engraving, Steel Engraving, and Other Processes. The Victorian Web. 13 Jan. 2001. 20 Nov. 2007.

Slide 36. For help with citing your sources, please contact the Reference Desk at (504) 865-5606, libref@tulane.edu, or IM us by clicking on Ask Us! on our homepage.